GMP was placed in 'special measures' in December following a damning report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) the week before.
The report found failures in the force's crime recording and the protection of vulnerable people with 80,000 crimes reported in one year not recorded.Shortly after this, chief constable Ian Hopkins resigned from the role.Labour councillor John Mullen told the scrutiny panel that he is 'utterly disappointed' by GMP, having asked 'countless times' for a plan to resolve issues it had been having with its computer systems for many months.He said: "The job of scrutiny is to challenge GMP to make sure that we do our very best as partners to protect the residents of Salford."How can we do this if we're misled?
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